Category Archives: WW1

Conference: The Great War in the Middle East 1911-1923, 20-21 April 2016

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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

This major international conference, organised jointly by the War Studies Department of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford, will re-examine the origins, conduct and consequences of the First World War in the Middle East. The voluminous historiography of the conflict remains, however, focused on the European experience of 1914-18. This conference brings together historians of the Middle East and the First World War to discuss this formative event and to relate the Great War to the broader period of conflict that affected the Ottoman Empire from 1911 to 1923.

The fee for attending the conference is £200; accommodation and dinners can also be booked as optional extras. If you wish to attend please email Dr James Kitchen for a copy of the conference information pack, booking form and the security form: james.kitchen101@mod.uk

Further information and programme: GWME Advert

Shakespeare and the Great War

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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war!

The War and Representation Network (WAR-Net) invites paper proposals for a conference on Shakespeare and the Great War to be held at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, on Friday 8 April 2016.

2016 is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. This one-day conference will explore intersections between Shakespeare’s plays and the Great War and reflect on anniversary culture more generally.

Keynote Speakers
Professor Gordon McMullan, King’s College, London
Professor Emma Smith, University of Oxford

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to Kate McLoughlin (kate.mcloughlin@ell.ox.ac.uk) by 31 January 2016. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

Ø  Wartime performances of Shakespeare
Ø  Shakespeare in the Trenches
Ø  Shakespeare on the Home Front
Ø  Global Wartime Shakespeare
Ø  Shakespeare / Nation / Empire
Ø  Ireland, Shakespeare and the Uprising
Ø  Shakespeare and Anzac
Ø  Shakespeare in Translation
Ø  Shakespeare and Propaganda
Ø  Shakespeare and Memorialisation
Ø  Shakespeare and ‘The Enemy’
Ø  Shakespeare and Morale
Ø  Wartime dramaturgy
Ø  Wartime publications relating to Shakespeare
Ø  Anniversary Culture (including commemorations of the 350th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and 300th anniversary of his death)

Please send proposals of up to 350 words and include your academic affiliation and a brief (100-word) biography. Please use ‘Shakespeare and the Great War’ as a subject-line.

The bells of hell: trench songs of the First World War

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The bells of hell: trench songs of the First World War

Stephen Sedley with Les Green and Dick Wolff

Friday 12 February 2016, 5.0 p.m.
Mansfield College Lecture Theatre

Stephen Sedley, an honorary fellow of Mansfield College and retired Lord Justice of Appeal, became interested in British trench songs in the 1960s, when he was able to record the recollections of a number of veterans. He has recently returned to these, and to printed sources, to compile this presentation, first given to the History Faculty in March 2015. With the vocal help of Les Green, Professor of Law,  and the instrumental accompaniment of Mansfield alumnus Dick Wolff (of the Three Pressed Men), he will describe and discuss the remarkable body of insubordinate and humorous song with which the troops faced hardship and death.

Roundtable discussion: Wharton in Wartime

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Wednesday, February 10, 2016 – 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Radcliffe Humanities Building, Oxford
St Luke’s Chapel

A roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Alice Kelly’s critical edition of Edith Wharton’s First World War reportage Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).

Featuring
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Dr Shafquat Towheed (Open University)
Dr Alice Kelly (TORCH, Oxford)

Chaired by Professor Elleke Boehmer (Acting Director, TORCH)

Followed by a wine reception

Women in the Humanities
Audience: Open to all

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Seminars in Irish History: Old Library, Hertford College, at 5.00pm

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SEMINAR IN IRISH HISTORY

This will meet every second Wednesday in the Old Library, Hertford College, at 5.00pm

Though this seminar is intended primarily for graduate students, interested undergraduates are warmly welcome

Hilary Term 2016

27 January
Tomas Irish (University of Swansea): ‘To “stand and fall with the fortunes of the country”? Trinity College Dublin and the Irish Revolution’

10 February
Dr Timothy Murtagh (Hertford College, Oxford): ‘Apprenticeship to Revolution: Irish artisans and British radicalism 1798-1820’

24 February
Robin Adams (St Peter’s College, Oxford): ‘Shadow of a Taxman: How and by whom was the Republican Movement financed during the Irish War of Independence (1919-21)?’

9 March
Charlotte Bennett (Wolfson College, Oxford): ‘“For the very foundation of truth, honour and morality”: Irish and New Zealand Boys’ Colleges during the Great War’

Professor Roy Foster
Dr Senia Paseta
Hertford College
January 2016

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Scholarships: The International Research Center of the Historial de la Grande Guerre

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The International Research Center of the Historial de la Grande Guerre annually awards research grants to students who are currently engaged in research for a Ph.D. on the First World War or a subject directly related to the conflict.

The competition is open to French and foreign postgraduate students from all disciplinary backgrounds.The scholarship will be awarded, for one year, to a candidate whose research is may contribute to the candidate’s career. For Henkel Foundation scholarship, applicants must be 35 years old maximum at the time of the scholarship application.
The deadline for submitting an application is 28 February 2016 . Candidates should submit an application (in French or in English) of not more than 20 pages containing the following:

• a C.V. (indicating the date of birth)
• a covering letter
• a letter from the Ph.D. supervisor
• an annotated bibliography
• an outline of sources consulted or to be consulted
• a summary of the thesis argument
• an outline of the thesis
Please note that it is necessary to submit 14 copies of the application.

Send it by mail:
Caroline Fontaine Centre de Recherche, Historial de la Grande Guerre, Château de Péronne, BP 20063, 80201 Péronne cedex
And one by email: c.fontaine@historial.org

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact:
c.fontaine@historial.org
tel 00 33 (0)3 22 83 54 13

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Summer School: The Face of First World War Battlefields and Battles

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Summer School for Graduate students: June 26th to July 2nd 2016, Péronne & Verdun

With financial support from the Conseil départemental de la Somme, the Mission du Centenaire 14-18, and the Office franco-allemand pour la jeunesse.

The International Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, with its partners at the EHESS Paris, the Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam and the Université de Picardie Jules Vernes invites applications for its summer school in Verdun and Péronne for graduate students working on the First World War or modern conflicts more generally.

Applications (in English or French) consisting of a 1-page summary of the candidate’s field of research [or: “research interests”] and a 1-page academic CV must be received before midnight on 15th February 2016 online: http://batailles2016.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Further information: CFP-batailles-Historial